Tom Cruise's Savagest Moment - Lucio Fulci's Aenigma 1989

Tom Cruise is one of the few modern Hollywood actors who channels the spirits of Douglas Fairbanks and Errol Flynn. His increasingly elaborate setpieces rely less on drama on more on cinematic techniques and physical prowess - they awe, something Fairbanks and Flynn were going for too. Unlike folks like Dwayne Johnson, Cruise manages to remain somewhat relatable and plausible in his stunts. And these long sentences are here to more or less kick things off to something completely different.



This clip is from the Lucio Fulci 1989 flick titled Aenigma. It is a splatter schlock fest about ghosts and death and sleaze from the master past his prime and up his own ass. But it doesn't really matter because this movie features Tom Cruise. Kinda. In fact, Aenigma features what is probably the savagest moment that ever featured Tom Cruise. Or if being exact, Tom Cruise's image.

The episode depicts a woman climbing on a window. She is trying to figure out who is calling her name and where the sound is coming from. She looks around standing windowsill, the voice comes from the back, she turns around and looks at the wall with Tom Cruise 1986 Top Gun publicity still.

The voice says "Kim! Kim! I'm waiting for you". And then the ravaged ghoul ghost appears, the woman is engulfed in horror, shrieks and falls off the window down on the ground to her death.

At the same time, the ghost casually disappears. We are left to gaze at Tom Cruise for another moment. This whole thing doesn't make any sense whatsoever. And it is good. I like how random it is. It just stays with you as a nugget of nonplus.